This series consists of favorable letters, faxes, and written records of phone messages from the constituents of Joel Wachs's
Council District 2. These materials were filed in the "Good Letters" files in Joel Wachs office, with the date typed on the
side of the correspondence to facilitate the filing of the letters chronologically. This series' holdings provide evidence
on such issues as rent control, crime, taxation, and maintenance of the city infrastructure. Correspondents of note include
Richard Riordan, Sheila Kuehl, Sugar Ray Robinson, Tom Bradley, Duke Comegys, Daryl Gates, Ed Davis, Shirley MacLaine, and
Charlton Heston.

Two groups of letters came filed separately from the general constituent correspondence under the titles of "Wachs-Personal"
and "Issues." Topics in the latter group include condominium conversion, a moratorium on high rise buildings, police, and
water and power service. "Wachs-Personal"and "Issues" have received separate sub-series: Subseries A: Issues (2 boxes);
and Subseries B: Wachs-Personal (2 boxes).

This subseries consists of favorable letters, faxes, and written records of phone messages from the constituents of Joel Wachs's
Council District 2. These materials were filed in the "Good Letters" files in Joel Wachs office, with the date typed on the
side of the correspondence to facilitate the filing of the letters chronologically. This series' holdings provide evidence
on such issues as rent control, crime, taxation, and maintenance of the city infrastructure. Correspondents of note include
Richard Riordan, Sheila Kuehl, Sugar Ray Robinson, Tom Bradley, Duke Comegys, Daryl Gates, Ed Davis, Shirley MacLaine, and
Charlton Heston.

Box 1, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters1971

Box 1, Folder 2-3

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters1972

Box 1, Folder 4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters1973

Box 2, Folder 1-2

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters1973

Box 2, Folder 3-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1974

Box 2, Folder 5

"Thank you letters sent (71, 72 and 73)"1971-1974

Box 3, Folder 1-2

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1974

Box 3, Folder 3-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters(January-June)1975

Box 4, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1975

Box 4, Folder 2

"Thank you letters sent (1974-1975)"1974-1975

Box 4, Folder 3

"Thank you letters sent (1976)"1976

Box 4, Folder 4

"Thank you letters sent (1977)"1977

Box 4, Folder 5-7

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters(January-June)1978

Box 5, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1978

Box 5, Folder 2-5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1978

Box 6, Folder 1-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters(July-December)1978

Box 7, Folder 1

Rent control, Christmas incoming and outgoing correspondence1978

Box 7, Folder 2

Anonymous1978

Box 7, Folder 3-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1979

Box 7, Folder 5-7

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1979

Box 8, Folder 1

"Thank you letters sent (1978-1979)"1978-1979

Box 8, Folder 2-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1980

Box 9, Folder 1-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-August)1980

Box 9, Folder 5-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1981

Box 10, Folder 1-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1981

Box 10, Folder 5

Christmas, holiday cards1980-1981

Box 11, Folder 1

"Thank you letters sent 1980-1981"1980-1981

Box 11, Folder 2-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1982

Box 11, Folder 5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1982

Box 12, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1982

Box 12, Folder 2

"Thank you letters sent 1982"1982

Box 12, Folder 3-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1983

Box 12, Folder 5-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1983

Box 13, Folder 1

"Thank you letters sent 1983"1983

Box 13, Folder 2-3

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1984

Box 13, Folder 4-7

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1984

Box 14, Folder 1

"Thank you letters sent 1984"1984

Box 14, Folder 2-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1985

Box 14, Folder 5-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1985

Box 15, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1985

Box 15, Folder 2

"Thank you letters 1985"1985

Box 15, Folder 3

"Newsletter requests"1985

Box 15, Folder 4-5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1986

Box 15, Folder 6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1986

Box 16, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1896

Box 16, Folder 2

"Christmas Letters 1986"1986

Box 16, Folder 3-5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1987

Box 17, Folder 1-3

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1987

Box 17, Folder 4

"Thank you letters sent 1986-1987"1986-1987

Box 17, Folder 5

"Congratulations" (re re-election to city council)1987

Box 18, Folder 1

"Christmas" (cards, letters re Christmas and New Years)1987

Box 18, Folder 2-3

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1988

Box 18, Folder 4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1988

Box 19, Folder 1-2

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1988

Box 19, Folder 3-4

"Endowment" (Los Angeles Endowment for the Arts)1988

Box 19, Folder 5-7

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1989

Box 20, Folder 1

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1989

Box 20, Folder 2-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1989

Box 20, Folder 5

"Thank you letters sent 1988-89"1989

Box 21, Folder 1-2

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1990

Box 21, Folder 3-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1990

Box 21, Folder 5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1991

Box 22, Folder 1-3

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1991

Box 22, Folder 4-5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1991

Box 23, Folder 1-2

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1991

Box 23, Folder 3

"Thank you letters sent 1990-91"1990-1991

Box 23, Folder 4-5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1992

Box 24, Folder 1-5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1992

Box 25, Folder 1-3

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1992

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1994

Box 27, Folder 4-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1994

Box 28, Folder 1-3

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1995

Box 28, Folder 4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (December)1995

Box 28, Folder 5-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1997

Box 29, Folder 1-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1997

Box 29, Folder 5-6

"Arena good letters 1997"1997

Box 30, Folder 1

"Arena good letters 1997"1997

Box 30, Folder 2

"Calendar good letters"1997

Box 30, Folder 3-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1998

Box 31, Folder 1-7

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1998

Box 32, Folder 1-3

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)1999

Box 32, Folder 4-6

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)1999

Box 33, Folder 1-4

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (January-June)2000

Box 33, Folder 5

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)2000

Box 34, Folder 1-2

Incoming and outgoing (copies) correspondence from constituents and supporters (July-December)2000

Series 1. Constituent Correspondence. Subseries B:
Issues. 1971-2000

Subseries size: 2
archival document boxes

Scope and Content Note

Two groups of letters came filed separately from the general constituent correspondence (Subseries A) under the titles of
"Wachs-Personal" and "Issues." Topics in the latter group include condominium conversion, a moratorium on high rise buildings,
police, and water and power service. "Wachs-Personal" and "Issues" have received separate sub-series: Subseries B: Issues
(2 boxes); and Subseries C: Wachs-Personal (2 boxes). This is Subseries B.

Two groups of letters came filed separately from the general constituent correspondence (Subseries A) under the titles of
"Wachs-Personal" and "Issues." Topics in the latter group include condominium conversion, a moratorium on high rise buildings,
police, and water and power service. "Wachs-Personal" and "Issues" have received separate sub-series: Subseries B: Issues
(2 boxes); and Subseries C: Wachs-Personal (2 boxes). This Subseries C.

Box 1, Folder 1-11

"Wachs-Personal" 1971-1981

Box 2, Folder 1-4

"Wachs-Personal" 1982-1983, 1985-1986

Box 2, Folder 5

Miscellaneous personal correspondence to Joel Wachs as City Councilman 1969-1994

This series consists of the campaign materials from each of the eight city council election campaigns in which Joel Wachs
participated. Materials include newspaper articles, election schedules, campaign disclosure reports (both of Wachs and his
opponents), polls, internal memoranda, filing statements, campaign flyers and letters, lists of supporters, and instructions
to campaign workers.

This series consists of, among other materials, press releases, correspondence, schedule of contributions, city campaign forms,
financial
campaign information, consultant agreements and bids, polls, newspaper articles, briefing papers, and volunteer lists from
Joel Wachs's
three unsuccessful runs for the office of mayor. Subseries B involves the 1983 mayoral election in which Joel Wachs contemplated
running
but chose not to do so. Thus it consists of materials that Wachs compiled before 1983 in considering the decision to enter
the campaign.

Subseries D (the 2001 mayoral campaign) contains excellent materials on the formation of a campaign, including the selection
of campaign
consultants and the use of the internet to campaign. For the campaigns in 2001 (Subseries D) and 1993 (Subseries C) Wachs's
staff
developed subject files (called "Issues") as a resource for information to aid in campaigning. These "Issues" files for 1993
and 2001
have received respectively sub-subseries.

After political maneuverings on the part of outgoing City Council President John Ferraro, Joel Wachs was voted president of
the Los Angeles City Council. In this series are newspaper articles and letters of congratulation to Joel Wachs regarding
this political milestone.

Digest of city council calendar: Joel Wachs election as city council presidency1981

Box 1ov, Folder 2

Newspaper articles1981

Series 5:
Speeches. 1981

Physical Description: 1 archival document box

Scope and Content Note

Joel Wachs made theses speeches at the City Council and other governmental functions, on the campaign trail, and at art venues.
Topics include eulogies for friends, the social role of art, politics, and civil rights. Some speeches are typed, others
handwritten, but all contain emendations made by Wachs's own hand, providing direct access to Wachs's thoughts on important
issues.

Series 6:
Campaign Supporters Lists and City Council Materials. 1971-1992

Physical Description: 3 archival document boxes

Scope and Content Note

This series contains photocopies of lists of campaign supporters from the 1970s; in Box 3 there is a folder with miscellaneous
flyers and mailers to Council District 2 from Joel Wachs.

Box 1 , Folder 1-2

List of supporters for dinner, lists and rosters of supporters, "Recipient Committee Campaign Statement" with list of donors 1977

Box 1 , Folder 3-4

"A-F Contributor Xerox List" 1971-1973

Box 1 , Folder 5-6

"G-P Contributor Xerox List" 1971-1973

Box 2 , Folder 1

"Q-Z Contributor Xerox List" 1971-1973

Box 2 , Folder 2-3

"A-Z Good Letter File" 1971-1975

Box 2 , Folder 4-5

"A-C Small 3 by 5 cards from big list" undated

Box 3 , Folder 1-2

Photocopies, from "Good Letter" files, of correspondence and telephone messages. Possibly used for creation of lists of supporters
in Boxes 2, 3, this series
1971-1972

Box 3 , Folder 3

Open letters, flyers and mailers to constituents 1991-1992

Series 7:
Personal Papers. 1957-2002

Physical Description: 4 archival document boxes, 1 oversize box

Scope and Content Note

Materials in this series include student newspapers and articles, scrapbooks, correspondence, commencement programs, and photographs
from Joel Wachs's student days at UCLA; and academic medals, school letters, and photographs from his high school days. Other
items include Wachs's Bar Mizvah invitation and letters responding to the public declaration of his homosexuality.

Newspaper and journal articles re Warhol Foundation and Joel Wachs; invitations to functions honoring Wachs on his retirement
from the city council, guest book from city council party retirement party
2001-2002

This series consists of campaign spots on audiocassette and videocassette produced for the mayoral campaigns of Joel Wachs
in 1993 and 2001. One videocassette is of a subject group of voters in the 2001 mayoral campaign.

Diplomas and law licenses, loose photographs, plaques, and sculptures are among the materials found in this series. Many
of the plaques and sculptures are honorary, celebrating Joel Wachs's many achievements.

Plaques with newspaper articles re 1971 city council victory; certificate of election plaques for 1971 and 1975 elections 1971, 1975

Series 10:
Appointment Books. 1971-2000

Physical Description: 4 archival document boxes

Scope and Content Note

The appointment books in this series are Joel Wachs's personal calendars for his public and personal activities during his
terms as Los Angeles City councilman

Box 1, Folder 1-8

Appointment books1971-1978

Box 2, Folder 1-8

Appointment books1979-1986

Box 3, Folder 1-9

Appointment books1987-1995

Box 4, Folder 1-5

Appointment books1996-2000

Series 11:
Scrapbooks. 1971-2001

Physical Description: 7 archival document boxes

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of Joel Wachs's political career compiled by his mother and indefatigable
supporter, Hannah Wachs. The clippings come from different newspapers throughout the Los Angeles basin, and provide information
on his activities as city councilman, and campaigns for mayor and the city council.

Box 1

Scrapbook re political career of Joel Wachs; compiled by Hannah Wachs1971-1987

Box 2

Scrapbook re political career of Joel Wachs; compiled by Hannah Wachs1971, 1994-1995

Box 3

Scrapbook re political career of Joel Wachs; compiled by Hannah Wachs1987-1990

Box 4

Scrapbook re political career of Joel Wachs; compiled by Hannah Wachs1991-1993

Box 5

Scrapbook re political career of Joel Wachs; compiled by Hannah Wachs1992-1993, 1996

Box 6

Scrapbook re political career of Joel Wachs; compiled by Hannah Wachs1995-1997

Box 7

Scrapbook re political career of Joel Wachs; compiled by Hannah Wachs2001-2002